A fine copy, in near fine jacket.
Jacket artwrok by Oliver Carson.
£195
London, W.H. Allen, 1954.
Fifth printing. 8vo. Original charcoal boards. Dust-jacket, priced 12/6.
An insight into homosexual society in London.
Out of stock
A fine copy, in near fine jacket.
Jacket artwrok by Oliver Carson.
Detective Fiction
London [&c.], Hutchinson, 1957.
First edition. Signed presentation copy from the author. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 11/6.
One of the later Inspector Saturnin Dax titles by this prolific author, with contemporary gift inscription from the author to 'Bill' Bayliss.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Heinemann, 1936.
First edition. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket.
What would happen? On this lively supposition Author Winter has written a tale that is blurbed as another 'South Wind' but is more like Somerset Maugham's spiteful 'Cakes and Ale' (Time Magazine, 1936)
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
London, Reinhardt, 1956.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original black boards. Dust-jacket, priced 10s6d.
The first collected edition of short stories by the author of I am Legend (1965).
London, The Bodley Head, 1924.
First UK edition. 8vo. Original red blind-tooled cloth lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 7/6.
Attractive English edition of this uncommon title by Swedish author Heller, translated by Pauline de Chary.
Sexuality & Erotica
London, Longmans, 1969.First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original boards. Dust-jacket.The rare supressed edition of the story of Antonio Valli, a brilliant young Italian philosopher who arrives in England for a year's research. He lodges with Dick Thompson, a successful middle-aged novelist. Antonio's charm and impulsive nature captivate Dick, leading to complex emotional entanglements.